I would love to, but I'm afraid there is not much chance that I will find any time for it in the foreseeable future :( So in the absence of a patch, just take my suggestion as that, something you can implement if it seems useful to you and forget about otherwise...
Regards, Michael > From: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:52:31 +0100 > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Gnash-dev] More verbose error output in plugin > > Hi Micheal, > what you're asking would be best implemented as a 'view logs' > GTK window. Benjamin has been looking at it some time ago but > never handled to complete the project due to other priorities > on the list. > > Nonetheless Ben added support for popping up windows and it > should already work for well-defined malfunctioning (media decoding > most noticeably). > > Now, adding more cases for a popup could help here, but it must > be very carefully analized what's worth notifying or the risk > is to get way TOO much notifications (and sometimes for nothing as > some SWF application keep working just with minor disturbances > for some unimplemented things). > > Probably a good candidate would be 'ABC' code at this time (movies > requiring the virtual machine version 2). > > Willing to provide a patch ? > > --strk; > > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:33:16AM +0100, Michael T wrote: >> >> Dear Gnash developers, >> >> This is a feature request for the Gnash browser plugin. It would be nice >> if, when >> Gnash can't play a file due to unsupported opcodes or similar, it would >> display text >> on the lines of "Gnash can't play this file (http://foo.bar/file) because it >> uses >> the unsupported XXX and YYY and ZZZ Flash commands. You may wish to contact >> the >> authors of the web page about this issue". - rather than just showing a black >> window. It would increase the chances of pages on the web being made Gnash- >> compatible, which would probably increase Gnash uptake (and the number of >> people >> interested in contributing). >> >> Regards and thanks for a great piece of software, >> >> Michael >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gnash-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev > > -- > > Free GIS & Flash consultant/developer () ASCII Ribbon Campaign > http://foo.keybit.net/~strk/services.html /\ Keep it simple! _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live: Keep your friends up to date with what you do online. http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/social-network-basics.aspx?ocid=PID23461::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-xm:SI_SB_1:092010 _______________________________________________ Gnash-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev
